Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life. The blaring posterish color- yellows, scarlets, blacks, emerald greens, a high obtrusive fuchsia - and the writhing knots of line, the words blinking like neon signs, the beat and pulsation of the space: this was visual jazz, American-style, and in deed some of Davis' titles, like The Mellow Pad, 1945-51, were couched in the musicians' argot...
...washed out--almost, but not quite, hitting the mark with its orchestration, sets and costumes. The overture wobbles where it should be mellow; the idea of using the stage screen as a curtain was interesting, but the screen itself is too flimsy. Its paint job has not so much saucy style as the flapper it pictures, winking boldly at the audience. The garden of the millionaress, Jo Vanderwater, where most of the action takes place in Act One, is also a mite tacky for the palatial estate it is supposed to be. Moreover, the lighting is so dim that...
...temple the devotees sit along a wall playing soft music and chanting devotional songs as visitors sit cross-legged, some singing along, all of them with their backs to the wall. It is the bhajan, the time for prayerful, mellow song and the prelude to the lecture, the aroti and the prasada...
State of emergency?? Mike Dukakis didn't look too alarmed to me, all cozy and mellow in his turtleneck and sweater. For us local sports addicts, the problem lately hasn't been the snow, it's been a lack of action so severe that we've all been sent in search...
...Public TV found out not long ago that it could gather its most zealous audience ever with the quality soap opera called Upstairs, Downstairs. Many radio stations, meanwhile, have discovered that it is possible to ignore rock and develop sizable audiences with the schmaltz of Barry Manilow or the mellow golden oldies of Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and the like. In the real world, clubs and restaurants are dimming the lights more than ever, and many such spots have provided the stages for the big continuing renaissance of jazz. As Benny Goodman once said, "Jazz is romantic." But these days...